You can gather the materials you need by requesting them, when your friends send them to you from the free gifts page, or by purchasing them with City Cash.

Once you have completed upgrading your Police Station you will notice new special types of citizens patrolling your streets: Cityville Police Officers

officers in cityville

You will get two(2) of these once you finish your first upgrade, and one(1) additional officer with each addition upgrade thereafter. If you hover your mouse over an officer you will recognize one of you neighbors! Your neighbors will be selected at random as your police officers, if you have less neighbors than the total number of officers for your Station level Sam will fill-in the empty spots.

If you click on your Police Station you will notice a new menu come up.
Cops Position :
- CAPTAIN
- LIEUTENANT
- SERGEANT

there are some options from cityville police station :
1. Officers
2. Bandits
3. Upgrades

Every time you collect from a business there’s a chance of Bandit showing-up, click on that bandit to catch him and earn a reward.

*Note: You have to have an active officer in order to catch a bandit. Bandits do not actually steal from your businesses, your earnings remain the same.

You can can see the list of all the reward different types of bandits will get you under the “Bandits” tab in the Police Station menu.

there are some ‘famous’ bandit name available here are the list of cityville bandits that you can catch :
- Billy The Bandit
- Meowing Marauder
- Couture Criminal
- Pie-Faced Pete
- Mommy & Clyde
- The Heartbreaker

Each time one of your officers catches a bandit they will need to get some sleep, in order to use that officer again you will need a donut to wake them back up. You can ask your friends for donuts or purchase one(1) for 5 City Cash.

Yes I do, i managed to keep connection after 2 tries on the same business, but when i’m collecting from the second one, and anothe bandit appears, it loses conection again and can’t go pass that. Unless I don’t collect from that business, of course

Yes, i also have the same problem. I clicked on “capture bandit” after capture the pop up said “attempting to connect to server”
The question is where does the problem originate?
Is it Zynga problem with creating new feature with a bug?
Or Is it the Flash on firefox? (i am using firefox)
And how can this be fix? Sooon i hope.
This is a good game but the more they update the worst it get. Why would you make something that is already good worst?

I don’t experienced that kind of issue…But do you know how to see Couture Criminal..? I have Police Station Level 4 but even once,I haven’t captured a Couture Criminal.So,you know how to see Couture Criminal because I love the reward when I captured that Couture Criminal..Please

Completed Police upgrade and had bandits appear after every ten to twenty businesses now I have collected from 100 business and have yet to get another bandit. Anyone else having trouble with bandits appearing?

What’s going on with the donuts ? I click several friends’ requests for donuts and each time I am told I have received a donut . Where are they ? Not in my inventory , not in my police station , and if I capture a bandit I am told I need a donut even though I had supposedly received several in the past hour .

Apparently you need to upgrade the police station first. Once you finish upgrading the game puts police on the streets. Without the police, the game will crash when you click on the bandit. There is an error message if this is the cause. “Not enough cops.”

Yes i think i have the answer to this sudden loss of the internet connections…. I think that it is an error because as stated above in this blog>> “Once you have completed upgrading your Police Station you will notice new special types of citizens patrolling your streets: Cityville Police Officers”". Additional to that, in my view, you can only notice bandits in your city after you have finished your 2nd Police Building Level. I think that Cityville may have a technical error where even before you finish that 2nd level…like myself… you can still get bandits. I realize that their temporary solution to the problem is to make you refresh… i.e. You lose connection.. My assumption …

It says lost connection because you probably just clicked on ok, to start the cops and robbers portion. You likely haven’t collected all 5 types of required materials to finish the upgrade. The lost connection happened to me until I finished upgrading the police station to level 2. Now I can capture robbers when I see them without any issues.

when you loose a connection after capturing the bandit. please check your police station if you have finish collecting all that is needed like sirens and such. few have done this and finished the collection and finally not loosing connections. good luck.

It seems to be 10 hours. But yes, defenitely. At around the 10 hour mark, the first business I click on renders a bandit (got eight so far).
So don’t waste your energy (literally) trying your luck! It’s NOT random!

I see my friends request asking me for donuts, whenever i click on it and try to send them, citeville gives me error that your level is not high enough to send the donut. What is the minimum level i need to send donuts?

On my last visit to Cityville I collect on all of my business except 6 (so they are all waiting for goods)…when i click on those 6 that i left with goods i get two bandits all the time..do not click to fast because you need to make sure you catch the bandit while you have enough donuts…so click collect star collect coins, then repeat…when you catch a bandit go to the wall and supply someone else with a donut this is the quickest way instead of waiting for your neighbors to read the wall..go back to your page making sure there is no donut above your police station the continue…I have 112 bandits when they added the new level with the helicopter i only needed 2 to level up…the only thing i hate is i have not gotten the watch store or the donut shop…lol

I have some how ended up with Two police stations. Both of them show the same ‘cops’ Does anyone know if I can delete one? I really would like to use the space but don’t want to lose my level 5 police station. Any help is appreciated. THANKS!

What’s with the limit on the amount of donuts you can ask for? I don’t have many friends who play cityville and I’ve lost loads of criminals as I can never get enough donuts, because the game won’t let me have them. I’m only on Level 4 police station